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Obviously I can't speak for all Americans...only myself. But I wasn't upset at all. I find it really hard to get upset at this particular loss of life in a country where, just days before, 6 Americans died as a result of violent protests over the destruction of a book. That in itself tells me they don't hold human life in very high regard. So I can't see myself getting upset about deaths in a country whose people have demonstrated time and again they have little regard for human life.
Yes, feel free to kill women, children and innocent civillians. 
Sadly, there are "American Exceptionalists" who believe that the only important lives on the Planet Earth are the lives of people born American citizens (and maybe naturalized American citizens).
To them, the women and children were Afghani, not Americans - which means they are not people. They would probably feel more upset if he had shot 17 Afghan hounds.
I saw the same thing during my time in Vietnam - Americans who did not consider Vietnamese as humans. Remember that "American hero" William Calley shooting Vietnamese children at My Lai - because, after all, if those Vietnamese kids were allowed to grow up, they might become Viet Cong?
This type of thinking goes back throughout American history:
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...there is a battle going on in a small location north and west of Franklin, Idaho. It is the northwestern Shoshone nation trying to obtain sacred land.
It is the sacred land where 138 years ago a California militia Colonel named Patrick Edward Connor gave his infantry and cavalry of over two hundred orders to 'take no prisoners and remember nits grow into lice.'
This order began a four-hour slaughter at 6:00 a.m. in the morning as the sleepy peaceful people woke at their winter camp on Bear River January 29, 1863. Nearly the entire camp of 400 warriors, old men, old women, women, children, and babies were obliterated.
The undisciplined militia raped the women and young girls. When they were finished with the women, the militia split their heads open with axes or shot them. Any children and babies who were found alive or wounded were likewise clubbed to death, axed, or shot.
The militia acted in the most barbarous ways and when the battle was over plundered the camp. The militia took the Shoshone ponies, food, warm skins, and buffalo robes. What this militia could not take with them were scattered and walked upon. The standing tepees were burnt to the ground. If they had missed any Shoshone, the militia left no food, no shelter, or clothing for survivors.
The militias under Connor were not yet finished with their vicious slaughters. The militia had taken Chief Bear Hunter captive and after binding him, the chief was kicked, whipped, and shot. Chief Bear Hunter was a proud and brave chief who did not utter a word or issue a cry of mercy under his torment. This so infuriated the militia; one of them heated a bayonet and thrust it through Chief Bear Hunter's ears.
In the evening, the militia loaded their dead for burial and wounded for care. The slaughtered Shoshone men, women, and children were left on the field for crows and wolves to devour...
In 1990, the northwestern Shoshone began requesting the United States Government to return this sacred land. As always the government has been less than fair or even concerned with any Native American requests.
History repeats itself - that's one thing wrong about history.
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"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.””
- Ellie Wiesel
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